Bandial among Time’s most influential figures

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KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial was on Monday named among the 100 Most Influential People of 2022 by Time magazine.

CJP Bandial’s profile for the list, penned by senior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan and placed in the leaders’ category, noted that he “is widely respected for his personal integrity, as he, the Columbia- and Cambridge-educated jurist, bears the heavy mantle of not just delivering justice but also being seen to do so”.

The list also includes the names of Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Vlamdir Putin, Olaf Scholz, Volodymyr Zelensky, Samia Suluhu Hassan, Christine Lagarde, David Zaslav, Tim Cook, Gautam Adani, Oprah Winfrey, Rafael Nadal, Hoda Khamosh, Mary J. Blige and Khurram Parvez.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2022

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